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Photo Credit: Joanna Morrissey

Photo Credit: Joanna Morrissey

No one wants to escape.
Two happy women I just met, surrendering belongings, last stage of the householder. One of them, a psychiatric nurse, having grown up in Scotland, survived uterine cancer, and the other, Nancy, her partner of 40 years, said: Damn, Mary, let us sell the house and put all our belongings into this truck, no storage, no anything. Nancy said: When people ask us what our plans are, we say, no plan, life is short, we live for today. It is great. We go anywhere. every pool at every Y i go into, people ask me to join their masters team. I am 66 and I swim for the joy of it, I kayak, I love to hike! Having no home makes wherever you are into a form of travel. You treasure the fleeting.
Skies of this week: darkening.
Why does one tree believe more in fall?
Every urge toward life and death here.